EVE General Discussion

1. With no drawbacks, boosters will soon become a required part of being in a good fleet. FCs will demand their use or face being put at an inevitable disadvantage. Do we really want to add another thing that has to be done before we can get out there and have fun? If everyone uses boosters, what is the point? I DON'T WANT A BUNCH OF EXTRA CLICKS BEFORE I CAN GO HAVE FUN.

2. Effort vs. reward. The way things are now, boosters can be great, but you gotta put the effort in. It's one of EvE's nice little quirky things; you can get an advantage, but you gotta know what you are doing, you gotta actually do some work. That's the way it should be!

3. Immersion. Why are these things illegal? Take the side effects away and they're just a buff item. Congratulations, you've made EvE just a little less real.




Don't any of you people remember the doctor buff lines in SWG? BLEH

"REQUIRED PART?"

like t2 mods? rigs? t3 hulls? faction ammo? implants?

ive seen plenty of effective t1 mod fleets, non-rigged ships, t1 hulls, t1 ammo, no-implant pilots.

boosters even after side effects will not be mandatory they will be a choice like all the things i listed above.

Quafe zero was flucking great! Attributes boosted, no side-effects to worry about! Yes I want more of this and I suspect I speak for most of the server when i say: remove the illegality, remove the side effects, lets get these things used.

Theres a whol raft of skills, ingredients and industry - not to mention the programming time taken to make them work that rarely gets used, lets change that.

Its a good change (fyi I have all the booster skills at 4/5 and i still support this).

this is the part where all the people scared of a level playing field come out of the woodwork to keep boosters "for themselves"

Right now, boosters can make a really big impact on a fight, IF used properly. MEMORABLE impact, even.

I've used boosters a few times.

I'd like to keep it that way.

LEAVE THE SIDE EFFECTS FOR DRUGS IN

yeah, as expected.

boosters as they currently stand are like rigs that only us lucky few can comsume.

we need to open them up to the general populace, if you want something exclusive buy some jeans

YEAH it will be AWESOME when everyone always is using boosters

AWESOME

AWESOME CHANGE

AWESOME

stupid emo.

help the religious right are following us into space

Fixed.

More specifically, some felt that it was a niche part of the industry side of EVE and wanted to see both increased usage and increased opportunities to produce the stuff.

Boosters were an underused slice of EVE's militaro-economic system due to their lousy overall price/performance ratio.
You're basically complaining that the price/performance ratio will get TOO GOOD to not always use ?
If yes, how's that radically different from, oh, say, buying some faction ammo instead of some regular ammo and making a few extra clicks when you join a fleet ?


I might agree that SOME level of side-effects should still exist for NON-MAXIMALLY-SKILLED people. But you should be able to nullify most if not all side-effects with either maxed-out skills or nearly maxed skills and a handful of implants.


The legality or illegality of something is not necessarily linked only to existence of side-effects. See difference between legality of light recreational drugs and that of various alcohols, or tobacco, or coffee, or specific types of medicine, or... well, you get the idea.
Also, just because they might not carry side-effects for capsuleers doesn't mean they don't carry side-effects for "regular", non-demigod-like people without constant access to cloning technology.



All in all, I am somewhat in a "meh" stance about it. Boosters DID indeed need a buff in my opinion.
Whether or not flat out removing all side-effects is the right way to do it... that's questionable.
But arguing that drugs should NOT be buffed at all, that I can't possibly agree with.

So I assume from the above that every fleet you join expects you to fly a ship fitted with nothing less than meta 14 items and a head full of expensive implants?